Bb5a31f81ClaimVenkatesh Rao coined the phrase cognitive industrious revolution to describe workers voluntarily expanding cognitive effort in response to accessible intellectual toolsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimHistorian Joyce Appleby authored the economic history book The Relentless Revolution: A History of CapitalismAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimGerman pilots and tank crews were supplied with Pervitin methamphetamine tablets during World War IIAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimFounding Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion formulated Israel's national security doctrine around rapid offensive operations because the Israeli economy could not sustain long mobilizations of military reservistsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimHistorical mercantilism operated on the assumption that international trade was zero-sum, meaning one nation's economic gain represented another nation's lossAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe 1973 Agranat Commission was mandated to investigate Israeli military and intelligence operational failures during the Yom Kippur War while explicitly excluding the political echelon from scrutinyAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimPre-industrial British laborers voluntarily increased annual working days to earn cash for newly accessible consumer goodsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe agricultural revolution reduced the proportion of the population required for food production from a vast majority to a small minority in advanced economiesAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimJoyce Appleby documented that pre-industrial British laborers increased their annual working days from approximately 250 days to 300 daysAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe agricultural revolution allowed vast populations to consume diverse foods without needing personal agricultural production skillsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimAI Malthusianism argues that the rapid expansion of intelligence production will outrun humanity's capacity to absorb it, rendering humans economically redundantAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimCapitalism altered labor politics from escaping servitude to demanding a fair share of expanding societal surplus and consumption opportunitiesAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimCognitive mercantilism fears the loss of scarce intelligence, whereas AI Malthusianism fears the catastrophic consequences of abundant intelligenceAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimAllied military forces distributed millions of Benzedrine amphetamine tablets to soldiers during World War IIAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimPrior to the rise of capitalism, approximately 80 percent of the human population engaged in subsistence agricultureAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimHistorical mercantilist statecraft prioritized controlling physical territory, running trade surpluses, and accumulating bullionAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimExpanding British trade in the pre-industrial era introduced ordinary consumers to imported commodities such as tobacco, tea, sugar, and Indian cottonsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimVenkatesh Rao characterized market capitalism as the first planetary intelligenceAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimClassical Malthusianism asserts that human population growth inevitably outpaces the productive capacity of the economyAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimBending Spoons targets refinancing the majority of its corporate debt annually to maintain maturities at least five years outAgreeDisagree